Improvement in cotton-harvesters



. i Steam Catton Harvester.` Y "No, 23,168. u Patentedrvaamhs,1859.

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Specification forming part- Letters Pat-entl N 0.'2:V,l76, dated 'Y I i.To alll whom t may concern: ,o v Beit knownvthat I, JOHN GRIFFrN, ofLouisville, in the county of Jefferson and State of Kentucky, haveinvented a new and' useful Machine or Device for Picking orHarvestingCotton by Steam; and I'do hereby declare vthat the following is a full,clear,l and exact description of the same, reference vbeing had ng apart of this specification, in which-f Figures l and 2 are verticalcentral 'sections' planes Aof 'sectionsi crossing each other at rightangles.

of my4 invention, the tw Similar letters of reference indicate correlvspending parts in the two ligur'es;l

This invention consists in' connectinga ilexif lble tube with a cylinderprovided with a perfcrated plate and connected with a steam-l boiler,substantially ,as hereinafter fullyshown and described,'whereby1a-vacuum may be produced withinlthe cylinder and the cottonpickedfrom the bcllspn the standing stalks by atmospheric pressure, thetubes being presented-tothe cotton by suitable attendants.

In carrying out this invention, I design-to Si; have the'cylinder abovementioned connected with the boiler of atraction-engine in order. to

facilitatethe transporting of the machine and the moving-of it fromplace vto place, or from row to row in the course of the operation. I

also design to employ one or more cylinders.

and a plurality of tubes, so that several hands may be employed andseveral -rows of cotton picked or harvested simultaneously.

To enable those skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I willproceed to describe its construction and operation.

A represents a steam-boiler, which is supported in a frame, B, and() 1sa cylinder which is placed above the boilerA, and has a tube, D,attac-hed to itsv upper part. 'VVithc inv the cylinder O'a horizontalyplate, a, is placed.4

, 'be near the upper part of the cylinderor above rIhis platev a isperforated, and may its center,

Below the plate a, within'the vcylinder C, a

taclled, as shown n Fig. 1.

way to resistthe pressure of the external'air. The tube d mayalso beprovided with two or more lexible branch tubes, e, as shown` in Fig. 1.

passes from the upper part of the boiler into thetube D,andvcommunicates with 'a short. vertical tube,'g, in the lower partof D,as shown clearly in 1. The tube fis provided with?- a cock, 7L. Theoperation is as follows: Steam is, gen erated in the boiler A, as usual,and when the cock h in tube f is opened vthe steam escapes through thetubej' into g. and up, throughD. producing thereby a suction in the tubed and cylinder as indicated by the arrows in Fig. '1. The operators o rattendants grasp the ends e e ofthe tube d and print their'orilices tothe bolls, and the cotton is ektractedxtherefrom and lconveyed or forcedup the tube d, into the cylinder G below the platea. When the cylinderis llled the cock h is closed, the ends of the cylinder C opposite :tubed reinder by operating the plunger The per forated plate a., it willAbe' seen, prevents the cotton (shown permits the `cotton to pass throughand fill the whole ofthe cylinder O below the platea'.l The boiler A, aspreviously stated, may be and an engineerv employed to drive the ina'-chine from place to pla-ce, as may be required in the operation ofharvesting.

said'plunger having au 4 opening, b, made through it, and ahandle, o,at-

As any form of traction-engine may be used,

aproper kind would suggest itselt'to an in i' telligentmachinist orengineer. Noparticular l The cylinder C is made to communicate 'with`the boiler A as follows: A tube, j',4

moved and the cotton forced from the cyl-V v in red) from being drawn upintotube D, while the hole bin the plunger 33ans one therefore is hereindescrbed,.it being nn-V and madero.communicate with n steam-boum',

necessary.

. l "A, by means ot' the tnbesj' g I), substantially Havng'thnsdescribed my invention, what I as and for thnp'nrpose-set forth. claimas-new, and desire to secure by Letters JOHN GHI FINN.

Patent?, is Witnesses z' The byl'mder (3,0116 or more, providedwvth JOHNK. LANE, a, perforated plate, a, exble Lube or tubes d, T. (l). LANE.

